Posted on 12/12/2022 3:01:11 AM PST by marktwain
On Friday, December 2, 2022, a father, Ariel Eliyahuo, and his two-year-old daughter returned to their Woodland Hills home in Los Angeles, California. An average-sized coyote can be seen approaching the two-year-old. It knocks the child down, then attempts to drag the girl off by her legs. Only the quick action of her father, who ran at the coyote, yelling, drove off the animal. The coyote did not leave the area until the father threw a water bottle at it.
The action fits very well as a predatory attack. Young children are reasonably close to the size of prey that a coyote would feel capable of taking down. As coyotes become comfortable with humans and gain experience that humans are not a danger to them, they are much more likely to “test” small humans as potential prey. The immigrant family is from Israel and has lived in the area for three years.
For generations, coyotes were considered vermin and shot at or killed when the opportunity presented. This is a common reason farmers and ranchers would keep a rifle handy. Not long ago seeing a rifle rack in a truck was a common thing, but that has been greatly reduced in California by their draconic gun control laws.
California is one of only five states which do not have the protection of the right to keep and bear arms in the state constitution. In the 1960s the state started making it harder and harder to bear arms. It is very difficult to be able to legally carry firearms anywhere in the state, including in rural areas.
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My baby sister moved here a couple of years ago from Colorado when she and her husband divorced. She and her two little dogs moved in with Mom to help take care of her.
One evening she called and told me that she and her little dogs were almost attacked by a pack of dogs while she was out walking hers on leashes. She managed to get back in the house before they got to them.
I asked her what they looked like and she said big, reddish gray, and all had bushy tails like a wolf. I told her those were coyotes. She had a hard time believing it because the coyotes she had in Colorado were tiny compared to these. She thought these were a pack of Shepards but thought it was odd that they all looked alike. LOL
She started carrying her Glock when she walked the dogs after dark.
I wonder if Pelosi, Schumer et al have fences that low surrounding their mansions.
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